Stephen A. Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote:
> The biggest red flag is how casually this is being treated. > Yes! On many levels: business, manufacturing, public relations, product safety and more. It reminds me of 19th century ballooning, when people tested prototype parachutes the first time by jumping out of balloons several thousand feet up. (Sensible people urged the inventors to try dropping the parachutes with a weight.) Or Davy's experiments concocting new gases in which he checked for toxicity or medical benefits by breathing in the new gas! Heck, it reminds me of the first jet passenger airplane, the Comet, which disintegrated several times before the authorities decided to ground it. See the book "Jet Age: The Comet, the 707, and the Race to Shrink the World." People's attitudes toward danger and risk was radically different in those days. It was considered unseemly to be afraid. - Jed
